Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1869)
New York, Appleton · leaf 593
ement in machinery for turning orshaving the heads of the blanks which are to be formed into wood screws, by J. Cuxlen Whipple,Providence, Rhode Island. In the machines heretofore used for turning or shaving the heads of blanks, the tool or cutter by whichthey were finished was brought up against… … In the accompanying drawings Fig. 3241 is a side, and Fig. 3242 a plan or top view. A A is theframe of the machine, which is made of cast-iron. C C is a tubular or hollow arbor or spindle, which issustained by and runs in the heads A A. The arbor or spindle C is driven by a band on a whirl orpulley…
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